2019 Sheffield City Council election
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on Thursday 2 May 2019; one of a number of local council elections taking place across England on the same day. One of each ward's three seats was up for election, having last been contested in the 2016 elections.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Election results
Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party fielded candidates in all 28 wards (including six candidates running under the Labour Co-operative label). UKIP fielded candidates in 22 wards. The Yorkshire Party contested six wards, Democrats and Veterans contested three and the Women's Equality Party contested two, with the National Front and the Socialist Party (under the Socialist Alternative label) each fielding one candidate. There were also two independent candidates.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Beauchief & Greenhill
Incumbent Liberal Democrat councillor Richard Shaw was up for re-election.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Broomhill & Sharrow Vale
The incumbent Green Party councillor and Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Magid Magid, did not defend his seat.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, City
Incumbent Green Party councillor Robert Murphy did not defend his seat.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Crookes & Crosspool
Incumbent Liberal Democrat councillor Adam Hanrahan did not defend his seat.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Dore & Totley
Incumbent Liberal Democrat councillor Joe Otten was up for re-election.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, East Ecclesfield
Incumbent councillor Steve Wilson was up for re-election, having won the seat for Labour in 2016. However, in February 2019 he resigned from the party and continued to sit as an independent. He contested this election as an independent candidate.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Ecclesall
Incumbent Liberal Democrat councillor Paul Scriven did not defend his seat.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Fulwood
Incumbent Liberal Democrat councillor Andrew Sangar was up for re-election.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Gleadless Valley
Incumbent Labour councillor Chris Peace did not defend her seat.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Graves Park
Incumbent Liberal Democrat councillor Sue Auckland was up for re-election.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Manor Castle
Incumbent Labour councillor Lisa Banes did not defend her seat; she contested the West Ecclesfield seat instead.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Park & Arbourthorne
Incumbent Labour Co-op councillor Ben Miskell was up for re-election.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Shiregreen & Brightside
Incumbent Labour Co-op councillor Dawn Dale was up for re-election.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Southey
Incumbent Labour councillor Mike Chaplin was up for re-election, having won a by-election in 2017 to hold the seat for Labour.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Stannington
Incumbent Liberal Democrat councillor Penny Baker was up for re-election.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Stocksbridge & Upper Don
Incumbent UKIP councillor Keith Davis did not defend his seat.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, Walkley
Incumbent Labour Co-op councillor Ben Curran was up for re-election.


2019 Sheffield City Council election, Ward results, West Ecclesfield
Incumbent UKIP councillor John Booker was up for re-election. Labour’s candidate, Lisa Banes, was a sitting councillor for Manor Castle ward.


2019 Sheikh Jassim Cup
The 2019 Sheikh Jassim Cup was the 41st edition of the cup competition for football teams from Qatar. It was changed from a group staged pre-season tournament featuring all Qatari Stars League sides, to a one off match between the previous seasons Qatar Stars League winners and Emir of Qatar Cup winners.


2019 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup
The 2019 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup, also known as Sheikh Kamal Gold Cup 2019, was the 3rd edition of Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup, an international club football tournament hosted by the Chittagong Abahani in association with the Bangladesh Football Federation. This tournament will take place at the M. A. Aziz Stadium in the port city of Chittagong from 19 October to 30 October 2019. Participation fees for each team are US$10,000 and the champion of the tournament will be awarded US$50,000 and the runner-up will be awarded US$25,000.


2019 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup
Terengganu F.C. are the current trophy holder. They have defeated Chittagong Abahani by 2-1 goals on 31 October 2019.


2019 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup, Participating teams
Eight clubs sent their team to participate in the tournament from five nations of AFC. Two teams from Bangladesh, three teams from India, and one team each from Laos, Malaysia and Maldives participated.


2019 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup, Draw
The draw were held on 11 October 2019 in Dhaka. The eight teams were divided into 2 groups. The top 2 teams from each group will qualify for Semi-finals.


2019 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup, Goalscorers
There have been 59 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 3.93 goals per match (as of 31 October 2019).


2019 Shenzhen F.C. season
The 2019 Shenzhen F.C. season is Shenzhen F.C. 's 1st consecutive season in the Chinese Super League ever since it started back in the 2004 season and 1st consecutive season in the top flight of Chinese football. This season Shenzhen F.C. participates in the Chinese Super League and Chinese FA Cup.


2019 Shenzhen F.C. season, Players, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open
The 2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the third (men) and fourth (women) editions of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Shenzhen, China between 28 October and 10 November 2019.


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received a special exempt into the singles main draw:


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open – Men's Doubles
Hsieh Cheng-peng and Christopher Rungkat were the defending champions but chose to defend their title with different partners. Hsieh partnered Yang Tsung-hua and successfully defended his title. Rungkat partnered André Göransson but lost in the first round to Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul.


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open – Men's Doubles
Hsieh and Yang won the title after defeating Mikhail Elgin and Ramkumar Ramanathan 6–2, 7–5 in the final.


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open – Men's Singles
Miomir Kecmanović was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open – Men's Singles
Zhang Zhizhen won the title after defeating Li Zhe 6–3, 4–6, 6–1 in the final.


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open – Women's Doubles
Shuko Aoyama and Yang Zhaoxuan were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open – Women's Doubles
Nao Hibino and Makoto Ninomiya won the title, defeating Sofia Shapatava and Emily Webley-Smith in the final, 6–4, 6–0.


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open – Women's Singles
Ivana Jorović was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.


2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open – Women's Singles
Zhu Lin won the title after Peng Shuai retired at 6–3, 1–3 in the final.


2019 Shetland by-election
The 2019 Shetland by-election was held on 29 August 2019 to elect a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the constituency of Shetland. It was held following the resignation of Liberal Democrat MSP Tavish Scott upon taking a new role at Scottish Rugby. The Liberal Democrats held the seat, with Beatrice Wishart being elected for the party.


2019 Shetland by-election, Candidates
The Liberal Democrats' Beatrice Wishart was deputy convener of the Shetland Islands Council. The Scottish National Party fielded Shetland-born Tom Wills, an engineer with an offshore renewables company. Two Shetland Islands Council members, Ian Scott and Ryan Thomson, ran as independent candidates. A former Shetland Islands Council member, Michael Stout, also ran as an independent candidate.


2019 Shetland by-election, Candidates
The campaign was hard-fought; the SNP spent £100,000 on the by-election - more money than the party spent during the entire EU referendum - and there was a swing of over 14% to their candidate.


2019 Shillong Premier League
The 2019 Shillong Premier League was 10th season of Shillong Premier League, the top-tier football league in Shillong, a city in Indian state of Meghalaya. Langsning F.C. was defending champions. The league commenced from 20 August 2019. It was also known as Officers Choices Blue Shillong Premier League due to sponsorship reasons.


2019 Shillong Premier League, Format
The 10th season of Shillong Premier League has been restructured. League will be played in regular format only, which means there will be no playoffs or final like previous seasons. Team finishing at the top of points table will be crowned champions. Bottom two teams will be relegated to First Division.


2019 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships
The 2019 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the women's tournament which was part of the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Kyoto, Japan between 18 and 24 February 2019.


2019 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships – Doubles
Eri Hozumi and Moyuka Uchijima won the title, defeating Chen Pei-hsuan and Wu Fang-hsien in the final, 6–4, 6–3.


2019 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships – Singles
Ylena In-Albon won the title, defeating Zhang Kailin in the final, 6–2, 6–3.


2019 Shimane gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held on 7 April 2019 to elect the next Governor of Shimane.


2019 Shimane gubernatorial election, Candidates
Masaaki Moritani (森谷公昭, Moritani Masaaki), a former city councillor at Hamada, Shimane, announced his candidacy, but was not listed among the four candidates.


2019 Shimizu S-Pulse season
The 2019 Shimizu S-Pulse season involves the team competing in the J1 League, they finished 8th in the 2018 J1 League. They will also compete in the J.League Cup, and the Emperor's Cup.


2019 Shimizu S-Pulse season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 Shorter Hawks football team
The 2019 Shorter Hawks football team represents Shorter University during the 2019 NCAA Division II football season. They are led by second-year head coach Zach Morrison. The Hawks play their home games at Barron Stadium, and are members of the Gulf South Conference.


2019 Shorter Hawks football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll
On August 1, 2019, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Hawks predicted to finish in 9th place in the conference.


2019 Shorter Hawks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team
The Crusaders had only one player selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.


2019 Shorter Hawks football team, Schedule
Shorter's 2019 football schedule consists of five home and six away games in the regular season. The Hawks will host GSC foes Delta State, North Greenville, Valdosta State, and West Florida, and will travel to Florida Tech, Mississippi College, West Alabama, and West Georgia.


2019 Shorter Hawks football team, Schedule
The Hawks will host one of the three non-conference games against Allen Yellow Jackets from the Appalachian Athletic Conference and will travel to East Tennessee State Buccaneers football from the Southern Conference and Fort Valley State from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.


2019 Shorter Hawks football team, Schedule
Two of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3 and ESPN+, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.


2019 Shpageeza Cricket League
The 2019 season of the Shpageeza Cricket League was the sixth edition of the Shpageeza, a professional Twenty20 cricket (T20) league established by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) in 2013, and the second edition to have official T20 status. The tournament featured the six regional teams that played in the previous season. The event took place between 9 and 18 October 2019, with the Alokozay Kabul International Cricket Ground hosting all the matches. The number of overseas players participating was significantly reduced from the previous edition, with the subsequent launch of the Afghanistan Premier League making that the main franchise Twenty20 league run by the ACB.


2019 Shpageeza Cricket League
Mis Ainak Knights won the tournament, after they beat Band-e-Amir Dragons by four wickets in the final. Noor Ali Zadran (Mis Ainak Knights) was the leading run-scorer in the tournament with 354, and Nijat Masood (Band-e-Amir Dragons) took the most wickets with 11.


2019 Shute Shield season
The 2019 Shute Shield season is 146th season of a premier rugby union competition in Sydney and the 97th season of the Shute Shield. The 2019 season is featuring 11 teams, following Penrith's cutting from the competition in 2018. The premiers were Sydney University, defeating Warringah by 5 points in the grand final, held at Bankwest Stadium.


2019 Shute Shield season, Competition format
The 2019 Shute Shield season will be played across 18 rounds, with each team playing each other once and eight other teams twice in a home and away format. This will be followed by a six-team play-off post season, culminating with a grand final on 24 August.


2019 Shymkent Challenger
The 2019 Shymkent Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Shymkent, Kazakhstan between 6 and 12 May 2019.


2019 Shymkent Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Shymkent Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:


2019 Shymkent Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:


2019 Shymkent Challenger II
The 2019 Shymkent Challenger II was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Shymkent, Kazakhstan between 10 and 16 June 2019.


2019 Shymkent Challenger II, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Shymkent Challenger II, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:


2019 Shymkent Challenger II, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:


2019 Shymkent Challenger II – Doubles
Jurij Rodionov and Emil Ruusuvuori were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2019 Shymkent Challenger II – Doubles
Nikola Čačić and Yang Tsung-hua won the title after defeating André Göransson and Marc-Andrea Hüsler 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2019 Shymkent Challenger II – Singles
Andrej Martin was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Stefano Travaglia 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2019 Shymkent Challenger – Doubles
Lorenzo Giustino and Gonçalo Oliveira were the defending champions but only Oliveira chose to defend his title, partnering Andrei Vasilevski. Oliveira lost in the final to Jurij Rodionov and Emil Ruusuvuori.


2019 Shymkent Challenger – Doubles
Rodionov and Ruusuvuori won the title after defeating Oliveira and Vasilevski 6–4, 3–6, [10–8] in the final.


2019 Shymkent Challenger – Singles
Yannick Hanfmann was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2019 Shymkent Challenger – Singles
Andrej Martin won the title after defeating Dmitry Popko 5–7, 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2019 Siberia wildfires
The 2019 Siberian wildfires began in July 2019 in poorly accessible areas of northern Krasnoyarsk Krai, Sakha Republic and Zabaykalsky Krai, all in Siberia, Russia. By the end of the month the size of the fires reached 2,600,000 hectares (6,400,000 acres). As of 30 July, there have been no reported deaths or injuries due to the fires.


2019 Siberia wildfires
The 2019 Siberia wildfires generated significant publicity, especially among the social media users. As a result, a process of reviewing legal regulations regarding forest protection and forest fire extinguishing activities has started at the state level.


2019 Siberia wildfires, Extent
On 31 July 2019, Russian authorities reported that 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres; 30,000 km2) were on fire, an area roughly the size of Belgium.


2019 Siberia wildfires, Extent
The smoke from the fires has affected air quality in much of Siberia, including cities Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk and other. Air travel was also disrupted. According to NASA data, on 31 July the smoke from burning Siberian forests reached the territory of Alaska and, possibly mixed with smoke from local fires, reached the western coast of Canada.


2019 Siberia wildfires, Extent
As most of the area affected is in uninhabited and/or poorly accessible areas, most of the fires are not being attended by firefighters. As of 6 August, Russia's Aerial Forest Protection Service was fighting 161 fires on 140,000 ha (350,000 acres), and only monitoring others. The smoke from the fires is making aerial firefighting unsafe. In 2020, extreme heat fueled enormous outbreaks of wildfires in the Arctic Circle exceeding the 2019 record for CO2 emissions. In 2021, Siberia was hit again by extraordinary dry weather, record forest fires and smog.


2019 Siberia wildfires, Reactions
On 1 August, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered an investigation into the accusation that fires have been started intentionally to conceal illegal logging. Officials in Krasnoyarsk were under investigation for neglecting to fight the fires. Medvedev also proposed revising regulatory acts in the field of extinguishing fires in regions including control zones, and instructed to consult with foreign experts in developing proposals to fight with wildfires, while US president Donald Trump offered Russia help in extinguishing the wildfires.


2019 Sibiu Open
The 2019 Sibiu Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sibiu, Romania between 16 and 22 September 2019.


2019 Sibiu Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Sibiu Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:


2019 Sibiu Open – Doubles
Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2019 Sibiu Open – Doubles
Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul won the title after defeating Ivan and Matej Sabanov 6–4, 3–6, [10–7] in the final.


2019 Sibiu Open – Singles
Dragoș Dima was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Václav Šafránek.


2019 Sibiu Open – Singles
Danilo Petrović won the title after defeating Christopher O'Connell 6–4, 6–2 in the final.


2019 Sichuan earthquake
An earthquake measuring 5.8 Mw struck the province of Sichuan in China at 22:55 local time (14:55 UTC), 17 June 2019. Changning and Gong counties in Yibin were particularly affected. 13 people died and more than 200 others were injured.


2019 Sichuan earthquake, Tectonic setting
Sichuan lies within the zone of complex tectonics caused by the continuing convergence of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate. The active faulting in this area relates to the eastward movement of material away from the Tibetan Plateau, which has been uplifted by this collision. The largest structure in the area is the Longmenshan Fault, movement on which was responsible for the M7.9 2008 Sichuan earthquake.


2019 Sichuan earthquake, Earthquake
Based on the focal mechanism the earthquake was a result of oblique-slip faulting, dominantly reverse faulting with a component of strike-slip. Further analysis suggests that the initial movement was on a reverse fault followed by rupture along a shallow strike-slip fault. The reverse fault movement matches well with the known stress field in the area, but the strike-slip fault is less favourably orientated, suggesting the presence of elevated pore pressures due to water injection associated with solution mining of rock salt. Results from the analysis of Interferometric synthetic-aperture radar (InSAR) data indicate that the reverse fault was shallow enough to be intersected by the openhole sections of some of the injection wells.


2019 Sichuan earthquake, Damage
More than 20,000 houses were badly damaged and some roads, communication infrastructure and hydroelectric power plants were also reported to be affected.


2019 Sichuan earthquake, Damage
There were 13 deaths overall, 9 of them in Changning County and the other 5 in Gongxian County. A further 220 people were reported injured, 6 of them critically and 16 severely.


2019 Sidama Region referendum
A referendum on the creation of a Sidama Region was held on regionalisation in the Sidama Zone of Ethiopia on 20 November 2019. The creation of such a region is a long-standing claim of the Sidama people.


2019 Sidama Region referendum
The management of the referendum and its likely centrifugal consequences on Ethiopia's system of ethnic federalism is seen as a crucial test for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's policy of democratic openness ahead of the 2020 general election.


2019 Sidama Region referendum, Results
The choices on the ballot paper were for the Sidama people to be organized within their own regional state, which was represented by the election symbol of “Shafeta” (traditional Sidama food vessel) and for Sidama to stay in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR), represented by the “Gojo” (traditional Sidama hut) symbol. The latter choice got a very small percentage of votes, an expected result given the popularity of the decades-long statehood quest among the Sidama and the lackluster campaigning by the SNNPR.


2019 Sidama Region referendum, Results
The result means Sidama will become Ethiopia's 10th semi-autonomous regional state, with its own regional constitution and regional council, enjoying a degree of sovereignty enshrined in Ethiopia's multinational constitution.


2019 Sidama Region referendum, Results
The Sidama regional state, the 10th regional state which will be carved out of Sidama Zone, will border Guji Zone and West Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region as well as Wolayita Zone and Gedeo Zone of the SNNPR.


2019 Sidama Region referendum, Results
The question of what to do about the city of Awasa in Sidama Zone, which is also the capital city of the SNNPR but would be outside of the region when the Sidama state is officially declared, was a sticking point for some time, but was addressed when the regional council decided that the SNNPR government would stay in Awasa for two consecutive election terms during which it would facilitate its own future capital city.


2019 Sidama Region referendum, Results
The 20 November referendum came five months after it was constitutionally mandated to have been held, an anomaly that was met with a bout of violence resulting in dozens of deaths in July 2019.


2019 Sidama Region referendum, Results
This also resulted in giving hope to other ethnicities belonging to the SNNPR party in order to strive and achieve statehood as the Sidama in fact did, and led to the 2021 South West Region referendum.


2019 Sidecarcross World Championship
The 2019 FIM Sidecarcross World Championship, the 40th edition of the competition.


2019 Sierra Leone National Premier League
The 2019 Sierra Leone National Premier League is the 32nd season of the Sierra Leone National Premier League, the top-tier football league in Sierra Leone. The season started on 27 January 2019.


2019 Sierra Leone National Premier League
This is the first edition held since the 2014 season, which was abandoned due to the Ebola outbreak.


2019 Sihanoukville building collapse
On 22 June 2019, a seven-story Chinese-owned building under construction, collapsed in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The collapse resulted in 28 deaths and 26 injuries.


2019 Sihanoukville building collapse, Aftermath
Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Yun Min resigned from his post on Monday.


2019 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Sikkim on 11 April 2019 to elect the 32 members of the ninth Legislative Assembly. The term of the eighth Sikkim Legislative Assembly ended on 27 May 2019.


2019 Sikkim Premier Division League
The 2019–20 Sikkim Premier Division League was the eighth season of the Sikkim Premier Division League, the top division football league in the Indian state of Sikkim. The league kicked off from 24 August 2019, with eight teams competing.


2019 Sikkim Premier Division League, Note
Sikkim Football Association imposed a one-year ban for the Sikkim Aakraman FC. Three players and a coach were accused of assaulting referee after the match against Sikkim Police FC at Paljor Stadium, Gangtok on 10 September 2019.


2019 Silicon Valley Classic
The 2019 Silicon Valley Classic (also known as the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 48th edition of the tournament, and part of the WTA Premier tournaments of the 2019 WTA Tour. It took place between 29 July and 4 August 2019 in San Jose, California. It was the first women's event on the 2019 US Open Series.


2019 Silicon Valley Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Silicon Valley Classic – Doubles
Latisha Chan and Květa Peschke were the defending champions but Chan chose not to participate.


2019 Silicon Valley Classic – Doubles
Peschke played alongside Nicole Melichar and successfully defended her title, defeating Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara in the final, 6−4, 6−4.


2019 Silicon Valley Classic – Singles
Mihaela Buzărnescu was the defending champion, but lost to Daria Kasatkina in the first round.


2019 Silicon Valley Classic – Singles
Zheng Saisai won her first WTA singles title, defeating Aryna Sabalenka in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–3).


2019 Silicon Valley Classic – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2019 Silverstone Formula 2 round
The 2019 Silverstone FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races held on 13 and 14 July 2019 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the seventh round of the 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship and ran in support of the 2019 British Grand Prix.


2019 Silverstone Formula 2 round, Background, Driver changes
Mahaveer Raghunathan returned to MP Motorsport after his one-race ban, replacing Patricio O'Ward. After leaving Campos Racing after the Paul Ricard round, Dorian Boccolacci returned to the series at Trident replacing Ryan Tveter.


2019 Silverstone Formula 3 round
The 2019 Silverstone FIA Formula 3 round is a motor racing event held on 13 and 14 July 2020 at the Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, United Kingdom. It was the fourth round of the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship, and ran in support of the 2019 British Grand Prix


2019 Silverstone Formula 3 round, Classification, Qualifying
The Qualifying session took place on 12 July 2019, with Jüri Vips scoring pole position.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season
The 2019 Simona Halep tennis season officially began on 8 January 2019 at the Sydney International. Simona Halep entered the season as the No. 1 ranked player in the world.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Sydney International
Halep started season playing at Sydney International as the top seed. She lost to No. 15 in the world at the time Ashleigh Barty in two straight sets, extending her losing streak at five.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open
Halep's next tournament was Australian Open. In the first round she beat Kaia Kanepi in three sets. . This match marked her first win since 2018 Western & Southern Open. In the second round, she faced Sofia Kenin, also winning in three sets. In the next rounds, she would play the Williams sisters. She won against Venus Williams in straight sets, but then, she lost to Serena Williams in three tight sets. In the end of the tournament, Naomi Osaka replaced her at rankings and peaked at No. 3, after Petra Kvitova.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Fed Cup World Group Quarterfinal
After win in World Group Play-offs vs Switzerland last year, team Romania came back on World Group, since 2016. In quarterfinals, they met team Czech Republic, in Ostrava. She led 2–0 in singles rubbers, defeating Katerina Siniakova and Karolina Pliskova. With these wins and the doubles rubber win by Monica Niculescu and Irina-Camelia Begu, they qualified for the first time, since 1973, in the semifinals of Fed Cup.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Qatar Ladies Open
Next tournament for Halep was Qatar Ladies Open, where she was the top seed and she had first round bye. En-route to the final, she defeated Lesia Tsurenko, Julia Gorges, and Elina Svitolina, where she trailed in the third set and, then, won five games in a row. In the final, she faced Elise Mertens. She lost in three sets, giving Mertens her first Premier title. This was the first final of the season for Halep.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Dubai Tennis Championships
Next tournament was Dubai Tennis Championships. She was no.3 seed and defeated Eugenie Bouchard and Lesia Tsurenko, both in two straight sets. In quarterfinal she was defeated by eventual champion, Belinda Bencic. In a conclusion of this tournament, Halep remains at no.2, after Kvitova lost in the final.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, March sunshine events, Indian Wells Open
In the Indian Wells, Halep was seeded no.2. She defeated Barbora Strycova and Kateryna Kozlova in two straight sets. Halep lost in the fourth round against Markéta Vondroušová in three sets. After this tournament, she remains no.2 in the world.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, March sunshine events, Miami Open
After the run of Indian Wells, her next tournament was Miami Open. In the second round, she crushed Taylor Townsend in straight sets. In the third round, she defeated Polona Hercog in three tough sets. Halep won against Venus Williams and Qiang Wang, in fourth round and quarterfinal, respectively. She was in contention of regaining the no.1 spot by reaching the finals, after Osaka's defeat in the third round. In the semifinal, she faced Karolina Pliskova, losing in straight sets. After this tournament, she remained no.2.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, European clay court season, Fed Cup World Group Semifinal
Her first clay-court event of the season was Fed Cup Semifinal. There, Romanian Fed Cup Team faced France in Rouen. In the singles rubber, Halep defeated Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia. At the doubles rubber, she played instead of Irina-Camelia Begu, withdrawing due to ankle injury, with Monica Niculescu. Anyway, after taking the first set, they lost, giving to France a ticket to the Fed Cup final.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season, Year in detail, English grass court season, Wimbledon
Halep won the 2019 Wimbledon Championships defeating Serena Williams 6-2, 6-2.


2019 Simona Halep tennis season, Tournament results and points comparison 2018 -2019
Halep's 2019 singles tournament results and points is as follows:


2019 Sindh HIV outbreak
2019 Sindh HIV outbreak refers to a Grade II Emergency as declared by the World Health Organization in the Ratodero area of Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan. It was the first of many outbreaks of HIV in Pakistan in which the majority of those infected were children.


2019 Sindh HIV outbreak
By 13 June 2019, at least 798 people including more than 650 children had tested positive for HIV out of the 27,000 people who volunteered for screening. By October 2019, approximately 1,100 people including almost 900 children under 12 had tested positive although the majority of the population still had not been screened at the many temporary testing centers that had been established. By 19 November 2019, there were 895 confirmed cases with 754 being children out of the 37,272 people to have been screened for the virus.


2019 Sindh HIV outbreak
The causes of the outbreak were identified by health officials as "unhygienic practices" including re-use without sterilization of medical syringes and needles in doctors' clinics and blood banks, barbers' razors, tattoo needles, nose- and ear-piercing tools, circumcision blades, and dental instruments. Transmission from mother to child was also cited as a possible cause.


2019 Sindh HIV outbreak, Background
Between 2010 and 2017 Pakistan registered a 45% increase in overall HIV cases. National AIDS Control Programme assumed there ~165 000 people in Pakistan who had contracted HIV, with only 15% of the number being aware of their condition, and only 17149 patients were receiving antiretroviral (ARV) therapy.


2019 Sindh HIV outbreak, Background
In April 2019, 15 children with persistent fevers were sent for HIV testing at a government facility. Blood tests returned positive tests, while perinatal transmission in these children was ruled out. HIV screening of 4100 of the area's residents revealed 157 additional HIV positive patients, 30 of the positive cases were adults and 127 were children. An inquiry by MoNHSRC found that the cause of the outbreak could be traced back to contaminated disposable syringes, which were likely used by someone posing as a doctor.


2019 Sindh HIV outbreak, Response
The Sindh AIDS Control Programme carried out a massive testing campaign which encompassed more than 26 000 people. By June 2019, more than 750 people were diagnosed with HIV, with children making up 80% of the number. In order to ensure an immediate access to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, a specialized clinic was established in Larkana. In cooperation with the United Nations, Pakistan began with the implementation of the "Sindh HIV Outbreak Response Plan, May 2019-Apr 2020”, which included both short-term and long-term steps to identify the causes of the outbreak, to address them, and prevent further infections.


2019 Singapore Cup
The 2019 Singapore Cup (also known as the Komoco Motors Singapore Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 22nd edition of the Singapore Cup, Singapore's annual premier club football knock-out tournament organised by the Football Association of Singapore.


2019 Singapore Cup
The draw was held on 30 August 2019. The groups are as follows:


2019 Singapore Cup, Format, Competition
The Singapore Cup will commence on September 25, 2019 with a group phase of two groups with four teams each. The teams will compete in the single-round group stage. The top two teams advance to the semifinals with the group winners facing the runner-up team from the other group. The higher seeded teams will host the one-off semifinals. The final will consist of a single match as well.


2019 Singapore Cup, Knockout Stage, Semi-finals
The first legs will be played on 26 October 2019, and the second legs will be played on 30 October 2019.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix
The 2019 Singapore Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2019) was a Formula One motor race held on 22 September 2019 at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Marina Bay, Singapore. The race was the 15th round of the 2019 Formula One World Championship and marked the 20th running of the Singapore Grand Prix and the 12th time the race had been held at Marina Bay.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Background, Track changes
Ahead of the race it was announced that a third DRS zone would be added between turns 13 and 14, down the Esplanade Drive, to aid overtaking. The detection point is established before turn 13.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Background, Championship standings before the race
Entering the round Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes led the drivers and constructors championships by 63 and 154 points respectively. The size of their leads meant that both would still be leading their respective championships after the race regardless of the race's outcome.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Background, Entries
The drivers and teams entered were the same as those for the previous race with no additional stand-in drivers for the race or practice. This race was the first occasion that Haas entered a race without title sponsor Rich Energy following the termination of the sponsorship contract.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Practice, FP1
Charles Leclerc retired early into FP1 and Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas suffered a snap of oversteer, causing a crash at Turn 19. Thus, a red flag was brought out. Max Verstappen led the timing charts, 0.167 seconds ahead of 2nd place Sebastian Vettel during the practice session. Nico Hulkenberg set an impressive time, landing him 6th on the timing charts, albeit 1.5 seconds off of Verstappen.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Practice, FP2
Early in the session Alexander Albon lost his front wing after locking up and bumping the wall at Turn 10. Lewis Hamilton gained an edge over Verstappen during the session, topping timing charts 0.184 seconds ahead of him. Leclerc managed to set a lap, though he was 1.245 seconds off of Hamilton. The two Ferrari drivers were reportedly frustrated after encountering numerous traffic incidents. Carlos Sainz managed P7, 1.3 seconds off of Hamilton.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Daniel Ricciardo and George Russell made contact at turn one on the first lap, causing damage to Russell's front wing. Nico Hülkenberg and Carlos Sainz Jr. collided at turn five, also on lap one, with both cars suffering punctures. Russell, Hülkenberg and Sainz subsequently all made pit stops at the end of the first lap, fitting the hard-compound tyres with Russell also replacing his front wing. Sainz's mechanics encountered a problem with the rear jack during his pit stop and the car was therefore stationary for 42.4 seconds. Sainz subsequently emerged from the pits a lap down on the leaders and with aerodynamic damage caused by the punctured tyre.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
For the following laps, the leaders of the race cut their pace considerably in order to conserve tyres and manage their cars' temperatures, often lapping nearly 15 seconds slower than the pole time. This had the effect of bunching up the field, and the usual gap between the front-running and midfield cars did not appear. At the end of lap 19, Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen became the first of the front-runners to make a pit stop, from third and fourth place respectively. Vettel emerged in tenth place, whilst Verstappen emerged in twelfth behind Hülkenberg. Charles Leclerc made his pit stop from the lead on the following lap, emerging behind his Ferrari teammate and thus handing the net lead of the race to Vettel.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Lewis Hamilton, who was yet to stop, inherited the lead of the race. Valtteri Bottas made his pit stop at the end of lap 22, emerging behind Verstappen and ahead of Alexander Albon, maintaining his net position. Hamilton was left out on ageing soft-compound tyres until the end of lap 26, in the hope that the Ferrari drivers, at the time running in sixth and seventh, would be slowed down by the midfield cars ahead. This plan did not work, and Hamilton emerged from the pits not only behind both Ferrari drivers, but also almost six seconds behind Verstappen.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Hamilton did come out ahead of his teammate Bottas, who was instructed to slow down after his pit stop to ensure Hamilton would leave the pit lane ahead of him. Due to the slow pace of the lead cars in previous laps, they emerged behind the midfield cars of Antonio Giovinazzi, Pierre Gasly, Ricciardo and Lance Stroll. Vettel and Leclerc began to make their way through this group, with Vettel cementing his net lead by clearing the cars quicker than his teammate.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Giovinazzi held the lead of the race for four laps until he was overtaken by Vettel on lap 31. This marked the first time a team other than Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull had led a race lap since Bottas led for Williams at the 2015 British Grand Prix and the first time Alfa Romeo had done so since Andrea de Cesaris led the 1983 Belgian Grand Prix.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
After the front-running cars had cleared the midfield cars on lap 34, the order was Vettel, Leclerc, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bottas, Albon, Giovinazzi, Ricciardo, Hülkenberg and Lando Norris. Ricciardo attempted an overtake on Giovinazzi, with the two cars colliding. Giovinazzi was pushed off the track and lost places to Hülkenberg and Norris, whilst Ricciardo suffered a puncture causing him to drop down the order and forcing a pit stop at the end of the lap. He emerged from the pits in 18th place. On lap 34, Romain Grosjean attempted to overtake Russell around the outside of turn eight.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Grosjean clipped the left rear of Russell's car, causing the Williams to swerve into the outside wall. This marked Willams' first retirement of the season and the first retirement of Russell's career. The incident brought out the safety car as the Williams was cleared from the track. Grosjean suffered a damaged front wing, making a pit stop at the end of the lap for a replacement and dropping him to 18th place. The stewards later deemed the collision a racing incident, and no action was taken.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Racing resumed on lap 41. Lance Stroll, running in 13th place, clipped the inside of the wall at turn 17, causing a puncture and front wing damage. He returned to the pits and emerged last of the running cars in 19th. On lap 43, Stroll's teammate Sergio Pérez pulled over to the side of the track from tenth place after suffering an oil leak. The safety car was brought out whilst the marshals removed Pérez's stranded car.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Racing resumed again on lap 48, on lap 50 Daniil Kvyat attempted an overtake for twelfth place on the inside of Kimi Räikkönen at turn one. The cars made contact through their front wheels and the impact broke the suspension of Räikkönen's car. The incident brought out the third safety car of the race.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
The safety car came in on lap 52. The final ten laps saw Charles Leclerc unsuccessfully attempt to catch his teammate Sebastian Vettel. After being overtaken by Robert Kubica and falling to last place, Kevin Magnussen took a pit stop at the end of lap 57, switching to soft-compound tyres and setting the fastest lap of the race. Since he finished the race in 17th place, Magnussen was not awarded the point for the fastest lap, which is only available if the driver finishes in the top ten.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
Vettel crossed the finish line to take victory, his first win since the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix. With Leclerc finishing second, this was Ferrari's first 1-2 finish since the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix, and the first time a team has ever recorded a 1-2 finish at Singapore since the race became a Formula One World Championship event in 2008.


2019 Singapore Grand Prix, Race
After the race Giovinazzi was summoned to the stewards for allegedly driving too close to the recovery crane after George Russell's crash on lap 34. Giovinazzi was given a 10-second penalty, however, since he finished 18 seconds ahead of Romain Grosjean, this did not affect his tenth place finish.


2019 Singapore National Football League
The 2019 National Football League (also known as the Aminovital National Football League) is the 45th season of the National Football League, it might be the first year that this league will have promotion to the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs, the Singapore Premier League.


2019 Singapore Open (badminton)
The 2019 Singapore Open (officially known as the Singapore Badminton Open 2019) was a badminton tournament which took place at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore from 9 to 14 April 2019 and had a total purse of $355,000.


2019 Singapore Open (badminton), Tournament
The 2019 Singapore Open was the tenth tournament of the 2019 BWF World Tour and also part of the Singapore Open championships, which had been held since 1987. This tournament was organized by the Singapore Badminton Association with sanction from the BWF.


2019 Singapore Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue
This international tournament was held at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.


2019 Singapore Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution
Below is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 500 event.


2019 Singapore Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money
The total prize money for this tournament was US$355,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.


2019 Singapore Premier League
The 2019 Singapore Premier League (also known as the AIA Singapore Premier League due to sponsorship reasons) was the 2nd season of the Singapore Premier League, the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs, since its rebranding in 2018. A major overhaul from the new FAS management was made from this season onwards to improve the standard of Singapore football.


2019 Singapore Premier League, Rules
The following key changes were made to the rules for the 2019 season:


2019 Singapore Premier League, Teams
A total of 9 teams compete in the league. Albirex Niigata (S) and DPMM FC are invited foreign clubs from Japan and Brunei respectively. Despite large criticism and discussion against the Young Lions project, the Young Lions will continue to compete till 2019 for the purposes of training and preparing for the 2019 SEA Games. The criticism mainly focused on the poor performances every season by the largely youth team made up of Singapore Football's brightest prospects.


2019 Singapore Premier League, Teams
Season-long consecutive losses against the rest of the more mature teams inflicts serious long-term consequences on the morale of the players, considering that most of these players are in the developmental ages of their footballing career. The new age restrictions imposed on the rest of the Singapore Premier League clubs could be seen as giving the Young Lions a better advantage in terms of seniority, but most critics and fans of Singapore football are still wanting the FAS to abolish the FAS-managed Young Lions and have them developed under the guidance of genuine local clubs.


2019 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Personnel and sponsors
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Foreigners
Singapore Premier League clubs could sign three imports from next season after the increase in foreign player quota was raised at the Football Association of Singapore's 36th Annual Congress


2019 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Foreigners
Albirex Niigata can sign up unlimited number of Singaporean players for the new season. Only 1 local player above 23 years old is allowed.


2019 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Foreigners
Players name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.


2019 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Foreigners
Note 1: Albirex, a Japanese club, is allowed to sign as many locals as their budget allows. However, the club are only allowed one Singaporean over the age of 23.


2019 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Foreigners
Note 2: DPMM FC, a Bruneian club, can sign 3 non-Bruneian foreigners.


2019 Singapore Premier League, Teams, Foreigners
Note 3: Singapore teams can sign 4 foreigners, of which 2 must be below 21 years old.


2019 Singapore Sevens
The 2019 Singapore Sevens was a rugby sevens tournament played at the National Stadium in Singapore on 13–14 April 2019. It was the eighth edition of the Singapore Sevens and the eighth tournament of the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series.


2019 Singapore Sevens
In the cup final, it was South Africa who took out their second Singapore title after they defeated Fiji by a single point. Third was England after they defeated United States by 21 points. France won the challenge trophy after defeating Scotland in the final.


2019 Singapore Sevens, Background
The Singapore Sevens is the eighth time that the Singapore event has been held with the seventh being in a World Series event. After winning the Hong Kong Sevens for the fifth consecutive time in the previous round, Fiji jumped past New Zealand to be in second place on the table. The United States still had the lead in the series but it was lowered down to only a seven-point gap between them and second place. For those two nations, depending on the results from the weekend they had a chance to book their spot at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Fourth place is South Africa with 99 points who hold a nine-point advantage over England.


2019 Singapore Sevens, Format
Sixteen teams are drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team plays all the others in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup quarter finals. The bottom two teams from each group advance to the Challenge Trophy quarter finals.


2019 Singapore Sevens, Teams
Fifteen core teams played in the tournament along with one invitational team, runner-up of the 2018 Asia Rugby Sevens Series, Hong Kong:


2019 Singapore Sevens, Players, Dream Team
The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:


2019 Siquijor local elections
Local elections in Siquijor were held on May 13, 2019 as part of the 2019 Philippine general election. Voters elected all local posts in the province: town mayors, vice mayors, town councilors, as well as members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan - three in each of the province's two administrative districts, the governor, vice governor, and one representative for lone district of Siquijor.


2019 Siquijor local elections
A total of 188 hopefuls ran for all local positions in the province and in six municipalities of province.


2019 Siquijor local elections
The total number of registered voters in the province is 76,225 which had an increase 10.49%from 68,988 in 2016. Siquijor has 450 precinct venues and 147 clustered precincts.


2019 Siquijor local elections, Provincial Election Results, Governor
Zaldy Villa (PDP-Laban) is the incumbent. Parties are stated in their certificates of candidacy.


2019 Siquijor local elections, Municipal Election Results
The mayor and vice mayor with the highest number of votes win the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected. Below is results of mayoral and vice-mayoral elections of each municipalities of the province.


2019 Sistan and Baluchestan protests
The 2019 Sistan and Baluchestan protests, were a series of protests in the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran. The protests started on 29 November 2019 after a prominent anti–government cleric was arrested.


2019 Sistan and Baluchestan protests, Timeline
Protests started on 29 November in the Pashamagh and Sarbaz area after a prominent cleric was arrested. Demonstrators closed off several roads in the area, and were met with the security forces responding with tear gas and live bullets in attempt to disperse the crowd. At least six protesters were injured as a result.


2019 Six Nations Championship
The 2019 Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) was the 20th Six Nations Championship, the annual rugby union competition contested by the national teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales, and the 125th edition of the competition (including all the tournament's previous versions as the Home Nations Championship and Five Nations Championship).


2019 Six Nations Championship
Wales won the championship for the first time since 2013, beating defending champions Ireland at the Millennium Stadium on the final day to claim their first Grand Slam since 2012.


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures
The fixtures were announced on 16 May 2017. The first game of the championship was a Friday night game between France and Wales.


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 1
Touch judges:Andrew Brace (Ireland)Brendon Pickerill (New Zealand)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 1
Touch judges:Mathieu Raynal (France)Shuhei Kubo (Japan)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 1
Touch judges:Romain Poite (France)Alexandre Ruiz (France)Television match official:Glenn Newman (New Zealand)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 2
Touch judges:Pascal Gaüzère (France)Alexandre Ruiz (France)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 2
Touch judges:Wayne Barnes (England)Shuhei Kubo (Japan)Television match official:David Grashoff (England)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 2
Touch judges:Andrew Brace (Ireland)Brendon Pickerill (New Zealand)Television match official:Glenn Newman (New Zealand)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 3
Touch judges:Nigel Owens (Wales)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Rowan Kitt (England)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 3
Touch judges:Jérôme Garcès (France)Alexandre Ruiz (France)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 3
Touch judges:Wayne Barnes (England)Karl Dickson (England)Television match official:Graham Hughes (England)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 4
Touch judges:Luke Pearce (England)Federico Anselmi (Argentina)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 4
Touch judges:Paul Williams (New Zealand)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 4
Touch judges:Angus Gardner (Australia)Karl Dickson (England)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 5
Touch judges:Nigel Owens (Wales)Andrew Brace (Ireland)Television match official:Graham Hughes (England)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 5
Touch judges:Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)Karl Dickson (England)Television match official:Marius Jonker (South Africa)


2019 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 5
Touch judges:Jérôme Garcès (France)Federico Anselmi (Argentina)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)


2019 Six Nations Championship squads
This is a list of the complete squads for the 2019 Six Nations Championship, an annual rugby union tournament contested by the national rugby teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. Ireland were the defending champions.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads
Note: Number of caps and players' ages are indicated as of 1 February 2019 – the tournament's opening day. For players added to a squad during the tournament, their caps and age are indicated as of the date of their call-up.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, England
On 17 January, England named a 35-man squad ahead of the 2019 Six Nations Championship.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, England, Call-ups
On 5 February, Nick Isiekwe was called up to the squad.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, England, Call-ups
On 4 March, Chris Robshaw and Jonathan Joseph were announced in the squad.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, France
On 9 January, Brunel named a 31-man squad ahead of the 2019 Six Nations.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups
On 22 January, Bernard Le Roux pulled out of the squad due to injury, and was replaced by Fabien Sanconnie.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups
On 5 February, Julien Marchand pulled out of the squad due to injury, and was replaced by Camille Chat.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups
On 16 February, Dany Priso was ruled out of the squad due to injury, and was replaced by Etienne Falgoux.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, France, Call-ups
On 11 March, Dany Priso and Kélian Galletier were called up to replace the injured Jefferson Poirot and Wenceslas Lauret.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Ireland
On 16 January, Joe Schmidt announced a 38-man squad for the 2019 Six Nations.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Ireland, Call-ups
On 21 January, Tadhg Beirne was ruled out of the first two rounds of the competition, and Quinn Roux was called up in his place.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy
On 10 January, Conor O'Shea named a 31-man squad for Italy's 2019 Six Nations Championship.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy
Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy, Call-ups
On 16 January, Marco Fuser and Marco Zanon were added to the squad.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy, Call-ups
On 30 January, Nicola Quaglio was added to the squad.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy, Call-ups
On 4 February, Engjel Makelara and Edoardo Gori were added to the squad.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy, Call-ups
On 21 February, Marco Riccioni was called up to the squad


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy, Call-ups
On 27 February, Oliviero Fabiani and Jake Polledri were added to the squad.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland
On 16 January, Gregor Townsend named a 39-man squad for the 2019 Six Nations Championship.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups
On 21 January, Luke Crosbie, Alex Dunbar, Rob Harley and Matt Smith being called into the squad as injury cover.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups
On 28 January, Rory Hughes, Stafford McDowall and Henry Pyrgos being called into the squad as injury cover.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups
On 4 February, Fraser Brown and Murray McCallum called into the squad as replacements.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups
On 18 February, Duncan Weir, Dougie Fife, James Johnstone, Magnus Bradbury, Zander Fagerson and George Turner were called up to the squad.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups
On 4 March,  Matt Fagerson, Byron McGuigan and Gordon Reid were called up to the squad.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups
On 11 March, Ruaridh Jackson and Kyle Steyn were called up to the squad as injury cover.


2019 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales
On 15 January, Warren Gatland named a 39-man squad for the 2019 Six Nations Championship.


2019 Six Nations Under 20s Championship
The 2019 Six Nations Under 20s Championship was the 12th series of the Six Nations Under 20s Championship, the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship. France were the defending champions. Ireland won the tournament and a Grand Slam, after winning all five of their matches.


2019 Six-red World Championship
The 2019 Six-red World Championship (also known as the 2019 SangSom Six-red World Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a six-red snooker invitational tournament held between 2 and 7 September 2019 at the Bangkok Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand. The event was the 2019 edition of the Six-red World Championship, first held in 2008. The event's final was contested by Scots Stephen Maguire and John Higgins who had won the 2019 World Cup doubles competition as a pair earlier in the season. Maguire won the event, defeating Higgins 8–6. The win was Maguire's first singles tournament victory since 2014.


2019 Six-red World Championship
Kyren Wilson won the previous year's event, but lost in the first knockout round to David Gilbert 4–6. The event saw a prize fund of 10,500,000 baht, with 4,000,000 baht awarded to the winner. Only one maximum break of 75 was made during the event, by Thepchaiya Un-Nooh. The event was sponsored by Thai rum producers SangSom.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Prize money
A total of 4,000,000 Thai baht (£105,000, as of 2019) was awarded to the winner of the event, with a total prize fund of 10,500,000 baht (£277,000). The championships were sponsored by Thai rum producers SangSom. The breakdown of prize money is shown below.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Tournament summary
The 2019 Six-red World Championship was a professional invitational snooker event held between 2 and 7 September 2019. The championship was contested under the six-red variant of snooker, with only six reds being used instead of the traditional fifteen. Invited players first competed in round-robin groups of four, the top two from each group progressing to a knockout round. The knockout rounds were first contested as best-of-11-frames matches up until the semi-final, which were played as best-of-13-frames, and the final played as best-of-15-frames.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Tournament summary, Group stages
The 32 invited players were split into eight groups of four players, with best-of-9-frame matches. Defending champion Kyren Wilson progressed alongside Thailand's amateur player Passakorn Suwannawat in group A. Suwannawat defeated Wilson during the group stage 5–2, leaving Wilson to have to defeat Mohammed Shehab to progress in the final group match. Stephen Maguire won all three of his group games in group B, with amateur player Wu Yize in second place. Wu won only one game in the group, but finished above Luca Brecel on frame difference.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Tournament summary, Group stages
Ding Junhui finished above Joe Perry after a 5–3 win in group C with both progressing. The group also contained one of two female players in Reanne Evans, and Noppon Saengkham. Gary Wilson defeated three-time world champion Mark Selby 5–4 in the second round of matches to progress. Selby joined Wilson after defeating Sunny Akani 5–2. The 2019 Riga Masters champion Yan Bingtao finished second in group E, despite being whitewashed by John Higgins 5–0, who won the group, after winning all three group games.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Tournament summary, Group stages
David Gilbert won group F ahead of 2019 World Seniors Championship winner Jimmy White in second. White defeated amateur player Mohamed Khairy 5–2 to progress. Stuart Bingham, the 2015 world champion won group G, only losing four frames in the three matches. Bingham progressed with Ali Carter in second place. Mark Williams won group H after defeating 2006 world champion Graeme Dott 5–4. Dott joined Williams in the knockout round after a defeat of Thailand's Thepchaiya Un-Nooh. Un-Nooh made the only maximum break of the event during the match.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Tournament summary, Knockout rounds
The knockout portion of the event was contested over four rounds, starting 5 September, with the final played 7 September 2019. In total, three former winners of the event progressed into the quarter-finals. Mark Williams, winner in 2017 defeated Joe Perry 6–1 and 2016 winner Ding Junhui defeated Graeme Dott 6–4. The 2014 winner Stephen Maguire defeated Jimmy White 6–5 despite being behind at 3–5, and won the match on the final black ball. However, defending champion Kyren Wilson lost in his match against David Gilbert 4–6. The sole remaining Thai player Passakorn Suwannawat lost in the last 16 to Ali Carter 5–6. Elsewhere, Stuart Bingham defeated Mark Selby 6–2, Gary Wilson defeated Yan Bingtao on a deciding frame 6–5, and John Higgins defeated Wu Yize 6–4.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Tournament summary, Knockout rounds
The first quarter-final saw Stephen Maguire defeat Ali Carter 6–2. Gary Wilson played Ding Junhui with the winner to play Maguire. Ding led 5–4, and had Wilson requiring snookers, but still lost the match 5–6. In a rematch of the 2019 World Snooker Championship semi-final, Dave Gilbert played John Higgins in the quarter-final. Higgins defeated Gilbert 6–4 to progress to the semi-finals. After taking all of the first four frames, Mark Williams defeated Stuart Bingham 6–3 to set up a rematch of the 2018 World Snooker Championship final against Higgins. Maguire won the first semi-final over Wilson, 7–5. Higgins defeated Williams by the same scoreline to meet Maguire in the final.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Tournament summary, Knockout rounds
The final was played on 7 September 2019, as a best-of-15-frames match. The match was contested between two players who had formed the winning Scotland pair at the 2019 World Cup, Maguire and Higgins. Maguire had won the event previously, in 2014, where he had defeated Ricky Walden in the final. Maguire took the first three frames, before Higgins led winning the next four frames. Maguire won both frame eight, and frame nine on the final black to lead 5–4. Maguire won the tenth frame and Higgins the eleventh.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Tournament summary, Knockout rounds
Higgins made the only 50+ break of the match to tie at 6–6. Maguire won the next two frames to win the match, and the championship 8–6. Maguire commented that he was "lucky" to win the tournament, but the result still "felt good". The win was Maguire's first singles tournament victory since the 2014 Lisbon Open.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Results, Group stage
The tournament was split into two sections, with a round-robin group stage, followed by a single-elimination tournament. There were a total of eight groups of four, played from 2 to 4 September. The top two players from each group qualified for the knock-out stage with all matches being played as best-of-nine-frames. Positions within the group were decided by the number of matches won and then, in the event of a tie, by frame difference. Where two players were still tied, the result of the match between them determined their positions. Where three players were still tied, the top position was determined by a draw and the other two positions by the result of the match between those two players.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Results, Knockout stage
The last 16 matches and quarter-finals were played on 5 September, the semi-finals on 6 September and the final on 7 September. Players in bold denote match winners.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Results, Final
The final was played as a best-of-15-frames match, on 7 September 2019. Scores in bold denote the winner of the frame, whilst a score in brackets denotes a break of over 50.


2019 Six-red World Championship, Maximum breaks
A maximum break in six-red snooker is 75. Only one maximum break was scored at the event, by Thepchaiya Un-Nooh.


2019 Skate America
The 2019 Skate America presented by American Cruise Lines was the first event in the 2019–20 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 18–20. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final.


2019 Skate America
Skate America was the first senior international event in International Skating Union history to be streamed live by the ISU on YouTube with geographical restrictions, as part of the federation's new deal for the 2019–20 Grand Prix series to reach countries that do not have broadcasting rights for any skating events.


2019 Skate America, Entries
The ISU announced the preliminary assignments on June 20, 2019.


2019 Skate America, Results, Ladies
Russia's Anna Shcherbakova became the first woman to land two quad lutzes in the free skate.


2019 Skate America, Results, Ice dance
The scores for the rhythm dance were initially calculated erroneously, omitting the Grade of Execution points for the man's half of the pattern step. Hours later, the scores were revised to reflect the proper point totals.


2019 Skate Canada International
The 2019 Skate Canada International was the second event of the 2019–20 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Prospera Place in Kelowna, British Columbia from October 25 to 27. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final.


2019 Skate Canada International, Entries
The ISU announced the preliminary assignments on June 20, 2019.


2019 Skate Canada International, Records
The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:


2019 Sky Blue FC season
The 2019 Sky Blue FC season is the team's tenth season as a professional women's soccer team. Sky Blue FC plays in the National Women's Soccer League, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States.


2019 Sky Blue FC season
Since the 2018 Sky Blue finished in last place and only won one game, 2019 offered opportunities for improvement. The off-season didn't get off to a promising start as two of the team's top draft picks, Hailie Mace (2nd overall pick) and Julia Ashley (6th overall pick) chose not to sign with the club. Mace signed with FC Rosengård and Ashley with Linköpings FC. Sky Blue's third and fourth picks, Paige Monaghan (10th overall pick) and Julie James (11th overall pick) did however choose to come to preseason and were ultimately signed. During preseason training two Sky Blue players suffered season-ending injuries. Defender Mandy Freeman ruptured her Achilles tendon and midfielder Madison Tiernan tore her ACL and MCL.


2019 Sky Blue FC season
On April 9, 2019 General Manager and President Tony Novo resigned from his position, Sky Blue Vice-President Alyse LaHue was appointed to take over as interim general manager. Kyra Carusa, Sky Blue's 19th overall pick in the 2019 Draft signed with Le Havre AC in France on April 25, making her the third Sky Blue draft pick to sign in Europe.


2019 Sky Blue FC season
On June 28, Denise Reddy was fired as the team's head coach. Her record as head coach was 1-8-24. Goalkeeper coach Hugo Macedo filled in on a temporary basis until the club named Freya Coombe interim head coach on September 4.


2019 Sky Blue FC season
Sky Blue played their first ever game at Red Bull Arena on August 18 against Reign FC. They set a club record with 9,415 in attendance for the game, which finished in a 1–1 draw. The positive feedback and high demand led the club to move their September 29 home finale to Red Bull Arena, where they drew 8,314 for a 1–1 draw against the Orlando Pride.


2019 Sky Blue FC season, Team, First-team roster
As of July 19, 2019Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 Sligo County Council election
A Sligo County Council election was held in County Sligo in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 18 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote.


2019 Sligo County Council election
The 2018 LEA boundary review kept the two municipal districts used in the 2014 elections, while transferring one seat from Ballymote–Tubbercurry to Sligo and splitting the latter into two LEAs. The changes were enacted by statutory instrument (S.I.) No. 632/2018.


2019 Sligo County Council election
A total of 35 candidates contested the county's 18 seats, of whom fifteen were outgoing councillors. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael each had nine candidates. Sinn Féin had three, Solidarity/People Before Profit had two, while  and one each for the Labour Party, Green Party and Renua. The nine independent candidates included Declan Bree, who was County Sligo's longest serving councillor. Thirteen of the fifteen candidates who were outgoing councillors were re-elected, including Bree who was first elected in 1974 to both the County Council and Sligo Borough Council.


2019 Sligo County Council election
Several seats were decided by very narrow margins, and result was that Fine Gael gained three seats to become the largest party, with six seats. Fianna Fáil lost three seats, and the other group totals were unchanged. The long-serving Bree was re-elected in the Sligo–Strandhill LEA.


2019 Sligo Senior Football Championship
The 2019 Sligo Senior Football Championship is the 114th edition of the Sligo GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Sligo, Ireland. The tournament consists of 10 teams, with the winner going on to represent Sligo in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


2019 Sligo Senior Football Championship
Tourlestrane were the defending champions for the third year running after they defeated Tubbercurry in the previous years final to claim their 14th title.


2019 Sligo Senior Football Championship
This was Shamrock Gaels' return to the senior grade after claiming the 2018 Sligo I.F.C. title. This was their first season as a senior club in 19 years since their relegation from the top-flight of Sligo club football in 2000.


2019 Sligo Senior Football Championship
On 20 October 2019, Tourlestrane claimed their 15th Sligo S.F.C. crown when defeating Coolera/Strandhill by 2-17 to 0-9 in the final at Markievicz Park. This completed a "4-in-a-row" of S.F.C. triumphs for the club becoming the first side to achieve this feat in 56 years – Ballisodare last completed the feat in 1963.


2019 Sligo Senior Football Championship
St. Molaise Gaels were relegated to the 2020 I.F.C. after losing their Relegation Final to Eastern Harps. This ended their 3 year tenure in the senior ranks since their promotion in 2016.


2019 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2018 championship season.


2019 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Group stage
There are 2 groups called Group A and B. The top 4 in each group qualify for the Quarter Finals. The bottom finisher in each group will qualify for the Relegation Final.


2019 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Relegation Final
The bottom finisher from both groups qualify for the Relegation final. The loser will be relegated to the 2020 Intermediate Championship.


2019 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Finals
The top 4 teams from each group qualify for the Quarter-Finals with 1st -vs- 4th and 2nd -vs- 3rd in each case.


2019 Slough Borough Council election
The 2019 Slough Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Slough Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2019 Slovak Cup Final
The 2019 Slovak Cup Final (known as the Slovnaft Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the final match of the 2018–19 Slovak Cup, the 50th season of the top cup competition in Slovak football. The match was played at the Štadión pod Zoborom in Nitra on 1 May 2019 between FC Spartak Trnava and MŠK Žilina.


2019 Slovak Cup Final
The winners of the final was automatically qualified to the first qualifying round of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League.


2019 Slovak Cup Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


2019 Slovak Open
The 2019 Slovak Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 20th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bratislava, Slovakia between 4 and 10 November 2019.


2019 Slovak Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Slovak Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2019 Slovak Open – Doubles
Denys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay were the defending champions but chose to defend their title with different partners. Molchanov partnered Hans Podlipnik Castillo but lost in the quarterfinals to Jebavý and Zelenay. Zelenay partnered Roman Jebavý but lost in the final to Frederik Nielsen and Tim Pütz.


2019 Slovak Open – Doubles
Nielsen and Pütz won the title after defeating Jebavý and Zelenay 4–6, 7–6(7–4), [11–9] in the final.


2019 Slovak Open – Singles
Alexander Bublik was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2019 Slovak Open – Singles
Dennis Novak won the title after defeating Damir Džumhur 6–1, 6–1 in the final.


2019 Slovak presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Slovakia in March 2019. Incumbent President Andrej Kiska did not run for a second term.


2019 Slovak presidential election
Fifteen candidates contested the first round on 16 March, of which two later formally withdrew their bids before voting took place, but their names still had to remain on the ballot papers. Zuzana Čaputová of the Progressive Slovakia party finished ahead of the other candidates, receiving 40.6% of the votes, but failed to achieve the necessary threshold of 50%+1 vote from all registered voters to avoid a run-off. Maroš Šefčovič, the Vice-President of the European Commission for the Energy Union, who was running as an independent supported by the Direction – Social Democracy (SMER–SD) party, came in as the runner-up with 18.7% of the vote and earned a place in the run-off as well.


2019 Slovak presidential election
In the second round on 30 March, Čaputová was elected with 58.4% of the vote to Šefčovič's 41.6%. She became the first woman to be elected to the presidency and became Slovakia's youngest-ever president upon her inauguration which took place on 15 June 2019.


2019 Slovak presidential election, Background
Andrej Kiska was elected President in March 2014. He won the run-off with a large majority against then-Prime minister Robert Fico.


2019 Slovak presidential election, Background
Polls indicated that he was Slovakia's most trusted politician and that he would have likely been the frontrunner in the election, had he chosen to present himself as a candidate. He had originally planned to announce whether he would run for a second term in September 2018. but moved it on 15 May 2018. Freedom and Solidarity had announced it would support Kiska's candidacy. However, Kiska announced on 15 May 2018 that he would not run for re-election, arguing that this move might end "the era of political confrontation" his country faced and citing a desire to spend more time with his family. Kiska is notably pro-European.


2019 Slovak presidential election, Background
Kiska's decision had been rumoured since February 2018 and political parties had already started to look for candidates.


2019 Slovak presidential election, Electoral system
The President of the Slovak Republic has been elected for a five-year term, and by popular vote since the elections in 1999. Its role is limited, but not just ceremonial. The President has the power to nominate the Prime Minister, to veto bills (unless confirmed by a two-thirds majority), and to nominate judges on the highest tiers of the judicial branch.


2019 Slovak presidential election, Electoral system
The President is elected through a two-round method; if no candidate reaches 50%+1 votes in the first round, the top two candidates of the first round take part in a second round.


2019 Slovak presidential election, Electoral system
For a candidacy to be valid, the Constitution of Slovakia requires the collection of 15,000 signatures of Slovak citizens, or the support of 15 of the 150 MPs in the legislature. The candidate must be an eligible voter over 40 years old, must resign from any other conflicting public office, and is limited to two terms in office.


2019 Slovak presidential election, Candidates
Candidates who claimed 15,000 citizen signatures or have 15 MP signatures by midnight of 31 January 2019 were as follows:


2019 Slovak presidential election, Campaign
During the campaign, Šefčovič (a Roman Catholic) spoke against any changes in LGBT rights status in Slovakia, strongly opposing both civil partnerships or same-sex adoptions. He criticised his opponent Čaputová (who is in favour of both) as a candidate who is forcing a "new ultraliberal agenda" on Slovakia, comparing the second round of elections to a referendum on such an agenda, which he considers to be "in exact contradiction to traditional Christian values".


2019 Slovak presidential election, Campaign
He also stated that "we can not support any further steps towards civil unions or same-sex adoptions because these would go precisely against our traditional Christian values", calling this stance as his "very natural position" due to his Christianity. According to his opinion, discussions about "such experiments bring great unrest to society".


2019 Slovak presidential election, Campaign
Šefčovič has also criticised his opponent Čaputová for her opinions on the European migrant crisis and related policies. He asserted the importance of a speedy deportation policy, so that "people who do not have any business here are sent to their home countries as quickly as possible". Furthermore, he argued out that "it has to be Slovaks who decide who comes to our country".


2019 Slovak presidential election, Campaign, Opinion polls, Kiska's Second term
This lists polls that asked people if they want Andrej Kiska as president for Second term.


2019 Slovak presidential election, Results
Zuzana Čaputová of the Progressive Slovakia party finished far ahead of the other candidates, receiving 40.6% of the votes, but failed to achieve the necessary threshold of 50%+1 vote from all registered voters to avoid a run-off. Maroš Šefčovič, the Vice-President of the European Commission for the Energy Union, who was running as an independent supported by the governing Smer-SD, was the runner-up with 18.7% of the vote and earned the other place in the run-off. Voter turnout in the first round was 48.74%, the highest percentage for that stage of presidential elections since direct voting for the position was introduced in 1999.


2019 Slovak presidential election, Results
In the second round, Čaputová won election to the presidency, garnering 58.4% of the vote to Šefčovič's 41.6%. She became the first woman to be elected to the position and will become Slovakia's youngest-ever president upon her inauguration on 15 June 2019. The second round turnout of just 41.80% was the lowest for any round of presidential elections in Slovakia. The number of votes with which Čaputová was elected to office is also the lowest for any directly elected Slovak president to date.


2019 Snooker Shoot Out
The 2019 BetVictor Snooker Shoot Out was a professional ranking snooker tournament, taking place from 21 to 24 February 2019 at the Watford Colosseum in Watford, England. It was played under a variation of the standard rules of snooker, and it was the fourteenth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season.


2019 Snooker Shoot Out
Michael Georgiou was the defending champion, but he lost to Li Hang 28–45 in the second round.


2019 Snooker Shoot Out
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh won his first career ranking title, beating Michael Holt 1–0 (74–0) in the final. Un-Nooh's 139 break in the semi-final was the highest in the history of the Shoot Out.


2019 Snooker Shoot Out, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2019 Sochi Formula 2 round
The 2019 Sochi FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races held on 28 and 29 September 2019 at the Sochi Autodrom in Sochi, Russia as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the tenth round of the 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship and was run in support of the 2019 Russian Grand Prix.


2019 Sochi Formula 2 round
ART Grand Prix driver Nyck de Vries won the feature race; in doing so, he mathematically clinched the drivers' championship with three races remaining.


2019 Sochi Formula 2 round, Classification, Sprint Race
The race was supposed to last for 21 laps but because of the collision between Nikita Mazepin and Nobuharu Matsushita that lead to a red flag, the race was shorted to just 15 laps.


2019 Sochi Formula 3 round
The 2019 Sochi FIA Formula 3 round is a motor racing event held on 28 and 29 September 2019 at the Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Russia. It was the eighth and final round of the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship, and ran in support of the 2019 Russian Grand Prix. The title was clinched by Robert Shwartzman in the first race.


2019 Sochi Formula 3 round, Classification, Qualifying
The Qualifying session took place on 27 September 2019, with Robert Shwartzman scoring pole position.


2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election
The 2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election took place in the autumn of 2019 to elect the new leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany following the resignation of the Andrea Nahles on 3 June 2019. Although the leader(s) of the party are elected indirectly by a party convention, for the first time since 1993 the SPD held a vote by the membership to decide the candidate(s) which the party's executive board will propose to the party convention. Though the convention is not obliged to elect the proposed candidates, the membership vote is considered politically binding.


2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election
The membership vote was held in two rounds, with the top two tickets from the first round proceeding to a runoff. In the first round held between 14 and 25 October, Olaf Scholz and Klara Geywitz placed first with 22.7% of the vote, while Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken placed second with 21.0%. In the second round, Walter-Borjans and Esken won with 53.1% of the vote to Scholz and Geywitz's 45.3%.


2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election
In December 2019, the SPD party convention elected Walter-Borjans and Esken as the new co-leaders of the party.


2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, Background
In the 2017 federal election, the SPD won just 20.5% of votes cast, its worst result in the history of the Federal Republic. Party leader Martin Schulz subsequently announced that the SPD would not renew the grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in which it had served since 2013. However, in November, after it became clear that there were no viable alternatives, Schulz reneged on his pledge and called an extraordinary party conference which voted to negotiate a new coalition agreement with the CDU. Schulz was subject to significant opposition and criticism from the party, and resigned as leader in February 2018. However, the coalition agreement was approved by 66.0% of the party members in a vote held later that month, and the SPD re-entered government.


2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, Background
Schulz proposed Andrea Nahles as his successor, and she was confirmed as the SPD's new leader at a party convention in April 2018. Nahles quickly faced difficulties with the new government as many disputes arose over the summer of 2018, including the "asylum quarrel" and controversy around Hans-Georg Maaßen. Nahles was unable to stabilize her party as its performance in opinion polling declined to record lows, accompanied by a string of historically poor state election performances. In national polling, the SPD was overtaken by the Greens in October 2018, and the party polled around 15% through early 2019.


2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, Background
In the 2019 European elections held on 26 May, the SPD placed third, winning only 15.8% of votes cast – the worst result for the party on a national level since 1887. Nahles came under major pressure to step down, and announced her resignation on 3 June. The party was thereafter led by acting leaders Malu Dreyer, Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel and Manuela Schwesig until the party conference in December which elected the new leadership.


2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, Procedure
Party members were permitted to declare their candidacy between 1 July and 1 September. Candidates were able to run as a sole candidate to head the party alone, or with another member on a two-person ticket to serve as co-leaders. In the latter case, at least one candidate was required to be female. Each single candidate or two-person ticket needed sufficient support from state, regional, or local SPD associations in order to run. The requirements were one state association, one regional district, or five local districts.


2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, Procedure
If no candidacy receives an absolute majority of the votes cast in the first round, the two candidacies with the highest number of votes cast proceed to a second round. Both votes were to be considered invalid if less than 20% of the party membership participated. The party's executive board was to propose the winner of the vote to the party convention which took place between 6 and 8 December.


2019 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season
The 2019 season was the 105th in Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras existence. This season Palmeiras participated in the Campeonato Paulista, Copa Libertadores, Copa do Brasil and the Série A.


2019 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Squad information
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa Libertadores, Group stage
The draw for the qualifying stages and group stage was held on 17 December 2018 at the CONMEBOL Convention Centre in Luque, Paraguay. Palmeiras was drawn on the group F.


2019 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa Libertadores, Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 13 May 2019.


2019 Soeratin Cup
The 2019 Soeratin Cup season is the 17th season of Soeratin Cup national round, an official football tournament which is intended for footballers under the age of seventeen and fifteen held by PSSI. The qualifying round already held in 2018.


2019 Soeratin Cup, Under-17
The national round of Soeratin Cup U-17 held in Malang Regency and Blitar. Matches are held in Gelora Brantas Stadium and Kusuma Agrowisata Stadium in Batu, Paskhas Stadium and Arhanud Stadium in Malang, and also Gelora Supriyadi Stadium in Blitar for third place and final. Thirty-two teams from each provincial association competed. The round began on 27 January 2019 and finished with a final on 9 February 2019.


2019 Soeratin Cup, Under-17
PKN Penajam Utama U17s from East Kalimantan were the defending champions. But they were eliminated in the group stage.


2019 Soeratin Cup, Under-17
Persebaya U17s from East Java won the title, defeating Persipan U17s 2–0 in the final.


2019 Soeratin Cup, Under-15
The national round of Soeratin Cup U-15 held in Blitar Regency. Matches were held in Gelora Supriyadi Stadium and Gelora Bumi Penataran Stadium. Twenty-one teams from each provincial association was planned to compete. But before the tournament start, three teams withdrew, leaving only 18 teams competed. The round began on 27 January 2019 and finished with a final on 7 February 2019.


2019 Soeratin Cup, Under-15
Askot Bandung from West Java were the defending champions, but they could not defend their title because they did not qualify for the national round.


2019 Soeratin Cup, Under-15
SSB All Star Rahuning U15s from North Sumatra won the title, defeating Persis U15s 2–1 after extra time.


2019 Sofia Open
The 2019 Sofia Open was a tennis tournament to be played on indoor hard courts. It was the 4th edition of the Sofia Open as part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2019 ATP Tour. It took place at the Arena Armeec in Sofia, Bulgaria, from February 5–11.


2019 Sofia Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Sofia Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2019 Sofia Open – Doubles
Robin Haase and Matwé Middelkoop were the defending champions, but lost to Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Purav Raja in the quarterfinals.


2019 Sofia Open – Doubles
Nikola Mektić and Jürgen Melzer won the title, defeating Hsieh Cheng-peng and Christopher Rungkat in the final, 6–2, 4–6, [10–2].


2019 Sofia Open – Singles
Mirza Bašić was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Martin Kližan.


2019 Sofia Open – Singles
Daniil Medvedev won the title, defeating Márton Fucsovics in the final, 6–4, 6–3.


2019 Sofia Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2019 Sokoto State gubernatorial election
The 2019 Sokoto State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on March 9, 2019. Incumbent Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal won re-election for a second term, defeating Ahmad Aliyu of the APC and several minor party candidates.


2019 Sokoto State gubernatorial election
Aminu Tambuwal was returned as the PDP candidate with Manir Dan Iya as his running mate. Ahmad Aliyu was the APC candidate with Faruk Malami Yabo as his running mate. 51 candidates contested in the election.


2019 Sokoto State gubernatorial election, Electoral system
The Governor of Sokoto State is elected using the plurality voting system.


2019 Sokoto State gubernatorial election, Primary election, PDP primary
Aminu Tambuwal was returned as the PDP candidate with Manir Dan Iya as his running mate.


2019 Sokoto State gubernatorial election, Primary election, APC primary
The APC primary election was held on September 30, 2018. Ahmad Aliyu won the primary election polling 2,282 votes against 3 other candidates. His closest rival was Faruk Yabo who came second with 837 votes, Abubakar Gumbi, came third with 70 votes, while Abubakar Gada had 20 votes.


2019 Sokoto State gubernatorial election, Results
A total number of 51 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election.


2019 Sokoto State gubernatorial election, Results
The total number of registered voters in the state was 1,887,767, while 1,083,413 voters were accredited. Total number of votes cast was 1,067,990, while number of valid votes was 1,036,336. Rejected votes were 31,662.


2019 Sokoto State gubernatorial election, Results, By local government area
Here are the results of the election by local government area for the two major parties. The total valid votes of 1,036,336 represents the 51 political parties that participated in the election. Green represents LGAs won by Aminu Tambuwal. Blue represents LGAs won by Ahmad Aliyu.


2019 Solheim Cup
The 2019 Solheim Cup was the 16th edition of the Solheim Cup matches, held from 13 to 15 September at the Gleneagles PGA Centenary Course in Scotland. The Solheim Cup is a biennial team competition between the top women professional golfers from Europe and the United States. It is a three-day match play event between teams of twelve players with a similar format to the Ryder Cup. Juli Inkster captained the U.S. team for the third time and Catriona Matthew captained the European team for the first time.


2019 Solheim Cup
After the first two days the competition was tied at 8-all. Europe won the singles 61⁄2–51⁄2 to win the Cup for the first time since 2013.


2019 Solheim Cup, Format
The Solheim Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. The format is as follows:


2019 Solheim Cup, Format
With a total of 28 points, 141⁄2 points are required to win the Cup, and 14 points are required for the defending champion to retain the Cup. All matches are played to a maximum of 18 holes. If the score is even after 18 holes, each team earns one-half point.


2019 Solheim Cup, Team qualification and selection, Eligibility criteria
The European and United States teams had different eligibility criteria:


2019 Solheim Cup, Team qualification and selection, Eligibility criteria
Team USAMembers of the United States team must be current members of the LPGA Tour and meet one of these three citizenship criteria:


2019 Solheim Cup, Team qualification and selection, Team selection
The European and United States teams were selected by different methods.


2019 Solheim Cup, Team qualification and selection, Team selection
Team EuropeTeam Europe consisted of the top three players from the LET Solheim Cup standings, followed by the top five LET members on the Women's World Golf Rankings who were not already qualified via the Solheim Cup standings, and four captain's selections. The 2019 Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open, held at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland, ending on 11 August, was the final event of the qualification period, and the full team, including the captain's picks, was announced on 12 August.